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Neurodiversity Collaborative
A shareable hub for neurodivergent students, allies, educators, and advocates to find community, specialized tools, research projects, and trusted support pathways.
Featured Community
CUNY SPS Neurodiversity Alliance
A developing student-centered community for neurodiversity, disability inclusion, accessibility, belonging, self-advocacy, inclusive technology, and peer connection across the CUNY School of Professional Studies.
The Alliance welcomes neurodivergent and disabled students, students exploring identity or access needs, allies, caregivers, advocates, faculty, staff, alumni, and members of the wider CUNY community.
Shared Commitments
Designed around choice, dignity, and participation.
More than one way
Text, voice, visual, asynchronous, quiet, and paced options support different ways of participating.
Privacy and control
People decide what to disclose. Public prototypes should be tested with fictional, non-sensitive information.
Technology with people
Tools can reduce friction and support preparation, but human relationships and qualified professionals remain essential.
Specialized Apps & Tools
Explore, test, and discuss.
These independent projects support learning, communication, executive functioning, advocacy, and inclusive participation. Prototypes are educational resources—not diagnostic, clinical, legal, or accommodation decision-making services.
FISH Scholar Guide
Practice how to describe a barrier, prepare a question, and revise an editable message while keeping the student in control.
Explore project →NeuroHub
Explore neurodiversity, strengths, barriers, learning preferences, and support conversations through an educational prototype.
Open resource ↗Bridge the Gap
Organize strengths, barriers, preferences, and helpful supports into a student-controlled conversation resource.
Open resource ↗Accommodation Advocacy Assistant
Prepare questions and possible next steps before speaking with a qualified disability or access professional.
Open resource ↗Behavior Support Assistant
Explore planning ideas informed by positive behavior supports, multi-tiered systems, Universal Design, and special education frameworks.
Open resource ↗Inclusive Game Day
Resources for sensory-aware, mobility-conscious, family-ready, and more inclusive public events.
Open resource ↗Official CUNY Pathways
Know where community ends and official support begins.
The Collaborative and Alliance can share ideas, peer connection, and preparation resources. CUNY and CUNY SPS offices remain responsible for official policies, services, accommodations, and decisions.
CUNY SPS Student Disability Services
Official disability-services information, contacts, and accommodation pathways for CUNY SPS students.
Visit the official page ↗CUNY Accommodate
Official CUNY platform guidance for accommodation requests, documentation, letters, and semester actions.
Visit the official page ↗CUNY SPS Student Clubs
Official information about student organizations, participation, and campus community opportunities.
Visit the official page ↗CUNY SPS Disability Studies
Explore CUNY SPS disability studies and disability services academic programs.
Visit the official page ↗Build With Us
Bring an idea, resource, or lived experience.
The Collaborative can grow through student-led events, peer circles, accessibility reviews, tool demonstrations, research conversations, newsletters, guest speakers, and cross-campus partnerships.